Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
- William Penn
Patience, Mountains, Like, Faith
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
- William Penn
Truth, Heat, Suffers, Argument
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Jealousy, Jealous, Torment, Themselves
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
- William Penn
Heart, Help, Right, Censure
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
- William Penn
Never, May, Hypocrites, Converts
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
- William Penn
Friendship, Courageously, Advise
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
- William Penn
Mind, Which, Ever, Weaker
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
- William Penn
Love, Reason, Grows, Lust
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
- William Penn
Beauty, Mind, Prefer, Thou
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
- William Penn
Never, Weakness, Thy, Thou
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
- William Penn
Speech, Always, Properly, Ostentation
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
- William Penn
Trust, Another, Thee, Betray
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
- William Penn
God, Will, Ruled, Tyrants
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- William Penn
God, Rebellion, Obedience, Tyrants
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
- William Penn
Fortune, Most, Tallest, Blast
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
- William Penn
Famous, Avoid, Popularity, Snare
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
- William Penn
Love, Wins, Laurel, Subdue
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
- William Penn
Mind, Reason, Which, Scholars
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
- William Penn
World, Should, Works, Mercy
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
- William Penn
Heat, Reason, Suffers, Coolness
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- William Penn
Nor, Means, Ever, Sanctify
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
- William Penn
Love, Wife, Nothing, Ought
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
- William Penn
Good, Reward, Sure, In The End
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
- William Penn
More, Deal, Owes, Great Deal
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
- William Penn
Knowledge, Ignorance, Excel, Costly
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
- William Penn
Turn, Them, Endeavors, Enables
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
- William Penn
Love, Reason, Most, Love Is
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
- William Penn
Some, How, Very, Studious
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
- William Penn
Humble, Set, Shines, Luster
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
- William Penn
Government, Think, Govern, Governed
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
- William Penn
Children, Men, More, Breed
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
- William Penn
Help, Me, Lord, Oppose
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
- William Penn
Love, Deserve, Apt, To Love
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
- William Penn
Man, Wise, Treasure, Wise Man
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
- William Penn
Wisdom, Perform, Lawful, Rarely
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
- William Penn
Sail, More, Judgment, Wit
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
- William Penn
Insurance, Obedience, Which, Our Lives
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- William Penn
Everyone, Against, Even, Wrong
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
- William Penn
Reason, Mob, His, Riot
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
Death, Eternity, Over, Turning
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
- William Penn
Own, Bad, Everybody, Fool
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
- William Penn
Better, Far, Would, Bitter
He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
- William Penn
Dying, Never, Lives, Fears
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn
Time, Most, Use, Worst
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn
Health, Sleep, Rest, Refreshment
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
- William Penn
Christ, Like, Christian
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